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• October 26, 2014

  Mother

  Album: Thanks For Bringing Love Around Again, Crossover 4000, May 2002. Promo single. A 5″ CD promo single was issued in 2002 by Crossover with a radio edit (4’03) and a bonus interview of Ray Charles by Barbara Blake. Recorded at Ouistiti Studios and Plus XXX Studios in Paris, RPM International in Los Angeles, and Lighthouse Recording Studio, […]

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• October 26, 2014

  Mountain Dew (With Willie Nelson)

  Album3 (VHS): The Willie Nelson Special With Special Guest Ray Charles, Embassy Home Entertainment, S.a. (Laser Disc: Rhino/WEA, 9 July 2002). Ray, Willie & band in rehearsal and for real. Recorded at the Austin Opry House on 17 and 18 May 1984, first aired in November 1985.

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• October 26, 2014

  Move It On Over

  Album: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in New York on May 7, 1964. Arranged by gerald Wilson. The session’s participants were Curt Miller, Oliver Beener, Floyd Jones, Philip Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrowes, Wallace Davenport – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, Julian Priester, Keg Johnson – trombones; Danny Turner, Harold Geezil Minerve, Bill […]

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• October 26, 2014

  Mr. Charles Blues

  Compilation album: Genius Sings The Blues, Atlantic 8052, September 1961 (1952 – 1959). Recorded on December 4, 1953 in New Orleans. With Wallace Davenport, Frank Mitchell (trumpets); Gerald O’Neil (alto saxophone), Joe Tillman (tenor saxophone), Warren Bell (baritone saxophone); Lloyd Lambert (bass); Oscar Moore (drums). Live: Atlantic’s compilation obviously made Ray aware of the tune again; […]

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• October 26, 2014

  Mr. Creole

  Album: Thanks For Bringing Love Around Again, Crossover 4000, May 2002. Recorded at Ouistiti Studios and Plus XXX Studios in Paris, RPM International in Los Angeles, and Lighthouse Recording Studio, Studio City, California. For session details, follow the album link, above. Mr. Creole by Ray Charles on Grooveshark

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• October 26, 2014

  Music, Music, Music (With The Ray Charles Band)

  Album: The Genius After Hours; Atlantic 1369, June 1961. Recorded on 30 April 1956 in New York. Ray Charles – p; Joe Harris – d; Oscar Pettiford – b. Live: In 1962 the tune was listed in a concert souvenir brochure as being part of the band’s book, but no live recording has been made.

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• October 26, 2014

  My Baby (I Love Her, Yes I Do) (With Margie Hendricks)

  Single (A): ABC 10081, January 1960, b/w Who You Gonna Love. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. The first release on ABC-Paramount. Phil Guilbeau – trumpet, John Hunt – flugelhorn; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis – bass; Milton Turner – drums. […]

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• October 26, 2014

  My Baby Don’t Dig Me

  Single (A): My Baby Don’t Dig Me, ABC 10557, May 1964, b/w Something’s Wrong. Compilation: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. One of the 16 Percy Mayfield-penned tunes that Ray Charles delivered on vinyl. Here with his big band.

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• October 26, 2014

  My Bonnie

  Single (B): Atlantic 1196, August 1958, b/w You Be My Baby. Compilation: What’d I Say, Atlantic 8029, September 1959. Recorded in New York on 20 February 1958 with Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; Richie Goldberg – d; Edgar Willis – b. The Raelettes – backing vocals. O […]

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• October 25, 2014

  My Buddy

  Album3: Quincy Jones, Q – The Musical Biography, Rhino R2 74363-2, 1991. DVD: Quincy Jones & Claude Nobs Present: Montreux Jazz Festival 1991 & 1992, Montreux, S.a. (track #20). In the 1984 documentary I Love Quincy, the protagonist surprised the film makers by giving them a tape that he had just found back, advising them to let Ray Charles […]

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• October 25, 2014

  My Cup Runneth Over (By Rita Graham, Ray Charles On Piano)

  Album3: Rita Graham, Vibrations, Tangerine TRCS 1507, 1969. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians. Arranged by Sid Feller.

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• October 25, 2014

  My First Night Alone Without You

  Album: Through The Eyes Of Love, ABC/Tangerine 765, August 1972. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited. Arrangement by Sid Feller.

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